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Improved upon, by the way, this should have never made its way to a courtroom. it was clearly self-defense. while it's imperfect, it is the best criminal justice system to ever grace the face of this planet. howard: tara, let me bring this into your area of expertise, which is politics. jerry nadler says he wants the justice department to review this case. apparently, doesn't like what a wisconsin jury decided to do. governor gavin newsom in california says this shows armed vigilantes can get away with it. senator tom cotton wants joe biden to apologize. are the media flogging this as a story ...

The next election actually paid attention because with there was just so much noise. i also think at the end of the the day that this trial, because of the sheer timing and coincidence, has overshadowed a big win for the democrats, the build back better package in the house, something you would think they would want to be blaring all day long and also on the networks. but if you watched the network news, they led with rittenhouse on friday because that was the day the verdict came out. howard: completely obliterated. the bill does have to go through the senate, of course. >> right. howard: pre...

When you don't see it, when you hear it through the filter of biased reporters, you're shocked. and that's what turns people to the streets. people turn to the streets screaming and yelling about rittenhouse, particularly in brooklyn where the campaign against rittenhouse was started by people holding palestinian flags yelling intifada. it's part of a broad narrative. it has nothing to do with this young man who's not a hero, who shouldn't have been there, who shouldn't have had an ar-15. no 17-year-old kid should have that. but they turned this into a case involving everything on the hard lef...

The fringes of those both conservative and liberal parties. and i think in the middle people are sort of watching it, that they're thinking about the issues, but maybe they're also thinking about other things as well like pocketbook issues before the election. >> really quickly if i could jump in, the only thing i'd push back on is this idea that kyle rittenhouse's trial is being partisan, and it has been driven by the polls of each ideology. here's the thing, we have -- we used to have more, lofty ideological debates. but what we're talking about now is a battle for the basis of basic truth. ...

Just some rulings, you know, even whether it was mr. rittenhouse's conduct, whatever. i think that caused some problems. again, for the government going forward. so the jury, they tried to compromise or there was some dissent back and forth, about having the delay in the signing of the verdict forms on certain counts so ultimately, it's not unusual to see juries come to a verdict on friday. they want to end the week. they have responsibilities and family duties and other things just like everybody else. and so you know, once a case and deliberations move toward a friday deadline, you almost ex...